On-street parking meter system supporting multiple payment tools and signal transmission method thereof

a parking meter and multi-payment technology, applied in traffic control systems, sustainable buildings, instruments, etc., can solve the problems of large consumption of battery power, inconvenient to receive too many batteries, and large consumption of time, so as to increase the overall size reduce the power consumption of the parking meter, and save labor costs
US20120284146A1Inactive Publication Date: 2012-11-08WONG YE PING
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US · United States
Current Assignee / Owner
WONG YE PING
Publication Date
2012-11-08
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Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

In an on-street parking meter system supporting multiple payment tools and signal transmission method thereof, parking meters spaced along streets are divided into multiple groups, each of which includes a main parking meter and multiple secondary parking meters, all of which are equipped with an all-in-one contactless card reader unit compatible with prepaid card, Visa Wave card and MasterCard PayPass card, and a remotely controllable pay-by-phone unit allowing a user to pay by phone. In each group, the main parking meter is provided with both long-range and short-range wireless communication units for bidirectional communication with a back-end parking charge management system and the secondary parking meters, respectively; while the secondary parking meters each are provided with only a short-ranged wireless communication unit for bidirectional communication with the main parking meter. Therefore, the parking meters have small size and reduced power consumption to enable reduced labor cost for replacing batteries thereof.
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FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0001] The present invention relates to an on-street parking meter system supporting multiple payment tools and signal transmission method thereof; and more particularly to an on-street parking meter system supporting multiple payment tools and signal transmission method thereof that utilizes both long-range and short-range wireless communication networks to enable bidirectional data transmission between parking meters and a back-end parking charge management system at reduced power consumption and provides an all-in-one contactless IC card reader unit on each of the parking meters thereof to enable convenient payment of parking fees without increasing the frequency of battery replacements.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0002] With the quick development in the transport facilities in the modern society, more and more people own cars, and it has become an important issue in most big cities to work out an effective plan for providing and managing public parking places ...

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